Tanie Kitabayashi
Born in Tokyo, Japan — May 21 1911• Died Apr 27 2010
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Tanie Kitabayashi (北林谷栄, Kitabayashi Tanie, May 21, 1911 – April 27, 2010) was a Japanese actress and voice actress. Born Reiko Ando in Tokyo, she began as a stage actress. Early in her career, she became well known for portraying older women. Kitabayashi was a founding member of the famed Mingei Theatre, founded in 1950. In 1960, she won best actress awards at the 10th Blue Ribbon Awards and at the Mainichi Film Awards for Kiku to Isamu. She also won the Japan Academy Prize for best actress in Rainbow Kids (1991), a film that also earned her honors from…
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My Neighbor Totoro
Granny (voice)
Mayuko hitori
加野のぶ
Red Bud and White Flower
限りなき情熱
おくさまは18歳
Asuka's grandmother
Twilight of the Cockroaches
Torah (voice)
Intentions of Murder
Kinu Takahashi
Beyond the Green Hills
Shiraki, Teacher
Proof of the Man
The Human Bullet
White Snake Enchantment
Tane
Suspicion
Harue Shirakawa
Rikyu
Mother
Nomugi Pass
Buddha
Sumi
The Burmese Harp
The Sands of Kurobe
Scandal
Yasu Hiruta
Station
Masayo Mikami
The Incident
Kane Shinozaki
Stakeout
Tora-san's Song of Love
Resurrection
Saki Naito
Odd Obsession
Hana
The Valley Between Love and Death
Tetsu Ishida
The Three Undelivered Letters
Never Give Up
Kiyo Matsushita
A Good Man, A Good Day
Patience Has An End
The Burmese Harp
Old Woman
A Story from Echigo
Children of Hiroshima
Otoyo
Wrath of Daimajin
Old Woman Kane
Tale of Japanese Burglars
Hayashida's mother
A Japanese Tragedy
Ichizo's wife
The Insect Woman
Madam
The Sun's Burial
Chika
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
The Start of Life
Tomi Ishiguro
The Greatest Challenge of All
The Wolves
A Hole of My Own Making
But the Flesh is Weak
Doctor
Foundry Town
Ume
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
Ohana
A Woman Called En
The Sea of Eden
Love: Starting on a Journey
My Voiceless Friends
Letter from the Mountain
Oume
Ghost Story of Youth
Nanny at Okumura's
Price of Life
Tome
Actress
The Street Without Sun
Aunt of Matsutaro
Our Teacher
Slave Factory
Our Town
Otaka
The Long Death
Haze of Love
Heat Wave Island
Amagi Pass
Tea house's old woman
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
Song of Love
Orin
White Beast
Gazing at Love and Death
Bad Girl
Miniature
Jūdai no yūwaku
Terror in the Streets
Shino
Gassan
My Second Brother
Musume no boken
Welcome, My Baby
Yuki Nishizaka
Call from Darkness
Sukeno
Writhing Tongue
Akira's mother
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
Conflagration
Aki, Goichi's mother
Become a Mother, Become a Woman
Hide
The Human Wall
Apart from Life
Matsuko Fukuji
Nippon no obaachan
Kumi
Bonchi
Yamada Village Waltz
A Billionaire
How Sorrowful
The Possessed
The Heart
Hioki's mother
Dangerous Women
Mrs. Kinumura
Children of Izu
Darkness at Noon
Satoe Miyazaki
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
Marriageable Age
Kobayashi Takiji
Yokubo
A Chain of Islands
Kikuko Sasaki
Blood and Sea
The Young and Bad
Only on Mondays
Yuka's mother
Sisters
Ningen Gari
Hole in One
Suga Akabane
Learn from Experience, Part Two
The Motherless
The Final Winner?
Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here
Koibito
Mrs. Saeki
Beauty and the Thief
Mrs. Inokuma
Tomoshibi
Journey to the North
Hana Kanai
Oh, My Comrade!
Harumi
Dolls floating down the river
Fuku
The Maid's Kid
Rainbow Kids
Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
Chance Meeting
Tetsu Koyanagi
The Little Hero
The Third Will
Kimie
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
Aunt Otora
でかんしょ風来坊
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
Fusako Kawai
Love is Lost
Nobuyo
The Bitch
Tami
Thousand Cranes
Toyo
Enraptured
The Shadow of Fear
Asu no hanayome
The Wild Daisy
Tamiko's Grandmother
A Windmill, Tulips and Love
Farewell to Spring
Old woman
Ashita au hito
Jigoku no hatoba
The Grave Tells All
Shiawase wa doko ni
Kane
The Dawn of Judo
Daybreak Chorus
Old Woman
All My Children
Fusakichi's mother
Saigo no sentō-ki
Blind Devotion
Saoko
Kanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soul
Before Dawn
Ofuki
River Without a Bridge
Yakuza sensei
男の哀愁
River Without a Bridge Part 2
Victory or Defeat
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
Moko's mother
Shokei zen'ya
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Grandma Shigeko
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
Summer Storm
Mitsu Asai
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
Goze / Narrator (voice)
Omoni to shounen